Gita, I love your Frans Hals. It gets very tall for me so I moved mine to the back of the border. Fantastic for hiding daffodil/allium foliage.
FIRST FLOWERS OF SUMMER!!! Yay it's finally here!!!
I have so many seeds from Frans Hals DL I don't know what to do with them....
WHY? Because I cannot help collecting seeds from everything..
Like I have a pile of seeds also from Wind's red canna.
WHO is going to take the time to grow either of these from seed?
G.
Great gardening day yesterday! I laid cardboard out for a new garden bed and puttered around weeding, deadheading, trimming, amending, planting, transplanting, watering. Finally got everything planted from Behnke's and tried out my new tools.
A few photos from roll call this morning.
1) My nandina is so close to blooming. It didn't bloom at all last year so this feels like a milestone for it. :-)
2) My first hosta bloom of the season--'Blue Mouse Ears'
3) My parsley has gone to town this summer. The buds have just sort of stayed greenish. Is that normal?
4) My first monarda bloom of the season--'Coral Reef'.
5) The mini rose my neighbor gave me several weeks ago has put out its first bloom
Nice Cat! Is that a pulmonaria seedling next to the Blue Mouse Ears?
Yes my pulmonaria had a baby! I'm planning to pot it up for the spring swap. Cultivar is EB Andersen
Some current blooms.
Lilium 'Graffiti'
Lilium 'Algarve'
Lilium cernuum
NoID lily
White Milkweed - Asclepias perennis
More
Astilbe 'Visions'
Campanula 'Pink Octopus'
Acanthus 'Morning Candle' (?)
Grecian Foxglove - Digitalis laevigata, a perennial species
Lavender Lacecap Hydrangea - Thanks Sally
I haven't been posting much but I want you all to know I am enjoying all the pictures. Here are a few from my gardens.
Asiatic Lily Elodie, Red Hot Pokers, Elderberry Sambucus, Rose America, Rose White Dawn
like that foxglove!
I still haven't measured the height of our huge holly hock. guessing at least 10 feet high!!
1-another pic of the HH blooms
2-red monarda starting to bloom now
3-Robins love to bath!!
4- can't post the pic yet of Coronado hyssop, but hope to soon in an article. it's my new fav plant of this summer!
Cat, does that little seedling have a promised home yet?
Wow, Greenthumb, your photos are gorgeous. I especially like the foxglove, campanula, and acanthus!
Beautiful lillies Holly :)
The photo of that Monarda looks professional Wind! Very nice.
I am hoping to plant my new "First Prize Rose" in my S. facing bed.
There is a small spot available, as I had planted a white rose in there
that I bought at Wallmart (lesson learned) that never made it.
So--the good soil I mixed up in this spot is still there...
The Rose I just bought had 4 flower buds on it---one already showing color.
I cannot wait for them to open.
I will try to right the leaning plant as I plant it. Don't like the way it is growing...
Here are some pictures of it right now... G.
1--The plant as it is.... leaning
2--The base of the stem where all the growth is coming from
3--Close-up of the flower bud that will open soon.
4--Mouse ear Hosta ready to bloom
What beautiful and unique blooms Greenthumb! I love the lilium Grafitti and the Lilium cernuum and Foxglove are very cool.
Beautiful hollyhock Wind and love the photo of the robin.
Beautiful lilies Holly!
Seq the baby pulmonaria is still looking for a home! Are you interested? :-)
beautiful flowers, gang!
David, and Pat, you are most welcome. I notice mine opened much pinker than I remembered, then has changed to lavender. Strawberries and Cream Hydrangea is just starting to bloom.
Wow, gorgeous blooms!
David, I really like that Acanthus and foxglove. I'd never heard of Lilium cernuum before. What an interesting flower!
Holly, I see that your Elodie isn't a double either. I read that they were supposed to double starting their second year.
Wind, how did you get that black background for your monarda picture? It really shows off the bloom.
Of course Cat! I'd love to give a home to that little guy :)
All right Seq you got it! :-) guess we need to get our fall swap lists going soon!
Yeah for sure :) I'll actually have things to swap by that time!
EVERYONE!!!!!!
Please do not rush "The Lists'! And--DO NOT, any of you, decide you will start one!
With "Lists" come chat and asking for this and that--and the acknowledging
"Got you down"...How many?....What color.....etc...etc....Way to early!
Practice patience!!!!! ALL in good time!
Because people decided to do this--It was close to a disaster for the spring Swap
Lists flying left and right--very confusing--as we were still dealing with the after-party
chat of the Seed Swap. Everything has a time.....
Bide your time--make your lists on paper--Make notes of what others seem to
have to offer--and when the time comes--you will be ready.
The Hosts of the Swap (Ric and Holly) will determine when is the time for posting
the "LISTS"...Holly already mentioned, somewhere, that she may start "The Lists"
sometime beginning of August.
Good! No more talk about Lists in JUNE for a SEPTEMBER Swap!
Kapish!!!! G.
edited to add:
If you must chat about haves and wants this early--that is what D-mails are for.
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More of our perennial species foxgloves:
Digitalis ferruginea 'Gigantea'
Digitalis parviflora
Digitalis thaspi 'Spanish Peaks'
Digitalis lanata
Those are amazing foxglove! They look like something I'd see in a botanical garden specializing in exotic tropicals! :-) Amazing that they are hardy here.
Some of our natives in bloom:
Heartleaf Skullcap - Scutellaria ovata
Hyssop Skullcap - Scutellaria integrifolia
Virginia Skullcap - Scutellaria lateriflora
Anemone virginiana
Indian Pipes
Some more bloomers
Viola cornuta 'Skippy XL Plum-Gold'
Can't remember it's name
Campanula persicifolia 'TakionBlue' - Rebloomin!
Venus' Looking Glass, a little annual weed I find delightful.
Your basic Pansies, but so cheerful.
Beautiful flowers GT, I have a soft spot for those skullcaps. I just planted an anemone virginiana, how old is yours? Does it spread about nicely for you?
Here are some pics around our place:
NOID lillies that I got for free one year
asclepias tuberosa
Coreopsis 'Red Shift'
Chrysanthemum 'Clary Curtis'
Rozanne Geranium
More lovelies:
Weston 'Lemon Drop' Azalea
Same Prunella Summer Daze as last week but more full
Campanula - I forget the name
Trollius Ledebourii
Nepeta 'Blue Dragon'
Greenthumb, I just love Indian Pipes, did you plant them or were they growing in your woods. I remember when I was young and we would take woodland family hikes, finding Indian Pipes was always a special thing.
Seq, you still have azaleas in bloom?! That's a very pretty soft yellow color.
David, do pansies and violas usually perform well for you this late into June, or is this unusual?
Jeff--
Campanula Elizabeth. Many of us have it--thanks to greenthumb...
G,
Beautiful blooms, Greenthumb and Seq! The Indian Pipes are new to me. I love the V. cornuta 'Skippy XL Plum-Gold'!
I can't believe you both have butterfly weed blooming! None of my asclepias looks close to blooming yet.
SSG, my violas are still going strong although they were getting so bushy I trimmed them back.
My favorites are the foxgloves. Wonderful pictures greenthumb
Holly - the Indian Pipes grow wild on our wooded property. Some years we see lots, other years very little. Always a delight. Same is true for Cancer Root/Squaw Root, another woodland parasitic native. (photo below)
SSG - never kept track of how late our Pansies last. The V. cornuta 'Skippy XL Plum-Gold' is a perennial and blooms well into the summer for us. Makes a nice under-planting for pots with vines.
Yeah SSG, it's a deciduous azalea. We have a bunch of them. Two have yet to bloom but they might not this year. Thanks for the Campanula ID G.
Muddy, Here's my BES 'Indian Summer'. I don't know if this is a new plant or a plant that survived last year?
OH EM GEE. Look at this peony-flowered poppy! I have been waiting forever for this thing to bloom and it finally has. This is my first time growing these things and I've made a lot of mistakes along the way.
1. Shouldn't have sown seeds here in the first place, these guys are 3 feet tall and hideously weedy looking before they set buds!
2. Shouldn't have mistaken them for weeds. I ripped out half of them. Oops!
3. Shouldn't have made plans to do anything except stare at these plants. I'm waaay too busy to give these flowers the adoration they deserve. I only got to see them for a few minutes yesterday and actually went in to work late this morning just so I could look at these flowers.
It is gorgeous Typ! :-)
I second that! I have many packets of poppy seeds, including a double that kind of looks like that, but I haven't planted them. I think they need the cold stratification? Anyway, I'll find a place I want to put them and throw them down this fall and see what happens.
Aspen, that's exactly what I did. I actually read somewhere that it's a good idea to sow them in the snow. Dunno if it's true, but that's what I did and I got many plants... so many plants that I thought they were weeds. :(
My thoughts were something like: "well if it's growing all over the place and if it's growing so successfully here, then it must be a weed." Yank!
Wow Typ, they're so beautiful!!!!!!! You actually sowed them in the snow? That is so cool!! Now I gotta figure out where I can get poppy seeds like that. :) Am I mistaken, or do Poppies prefer sorta dry-ish growing conditions?
Don't birds eat the seed when laid over the snow?
My guess is, they were probably tucked in, under the snow. Please correct me if I'm wrong Typ. :)
Edited to say: Nope, I correct myself! Just did a bit of reading about it and, sure enough, the idea is to sprinkle the seed ON TOP of the snow. Interesting. This one guy, Mr. Brown Thumb says it's best to sprinkle them on top of freshly fallen/fallING snow, so that they stay put and can be covered a bit by more falling snow. Gonna have to see about getting my hands on some seeds and trying this this February!
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I'm enjoying everyone's photos - what a dizzying array of flowers!
I snow-sowed some seeds in a forest clearing this winter, but stopped when I realized I had no idea where they would end up; e.g. on a thick pile of leaves or a log.